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OK, here's a site that still has people baffled as to how it was built. And it was built relatively recently (1923 to 1951). Its called the Coral Castle and is just south of Miami, FL a few miles.
http://coralcastle.com/ It was built by a single individual (Edward Leedskalnin), apparently of very small stature (100 pounds) who claimed that "he knew the secrets used to build the ancient pyramids and if he could learn them, you could too." I've heard about the site for years but have yet to visit. I do know that there are some very heated discussions in some communities about how he did it. Apparently, he would never let anyone watch as he was doing something but people in the area did see the results of his endeavors (I guess he only worked at night). Just as an example, here's a brief story I heard a few years ago (I don't know how true it is). The story goes that a truck pulled up to the castle with a load of one of these huge pieces of coral (weighing several tons). Ed asked the truck driver to go do some errand for him for a few minutes which the driver did. A few minutes later the driver returned and the stone was on the floor. With nobody around except for him and Ed. Just kind of an interesting place that needs further research. Last edited by 9876543210; December 20th, 2009 at 04:59 PM.. |
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The only people interested in perpetuating this myth (aside from your assorted wackos) are those who have no interest in the facts but want to sell books or TV shows. That last statement also applies to aliens building our ancient monoliths, little green men visiting Roswell, and Jesus or the Madonna showing up on taco shells and water towers. |
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The central buildings of Machu Picchu use the classical Inca architectural style of polished dry-stone walls of regular shape. The Incas were masters of this technique, called ashlar, in which blocks of stone are cut to fit together tightly without mortar. The Incas were among the best stone masons the world has seen, and many junctions in the central city are so perfect that it is said not even a blade of grass fits between the stones. This is what i call a very clean cut. The stones match perfectly. How the hell did they do that..?
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Of course, he could have been dropped off by aliens at Roswell and then been transported here by magic ... but I doubt it! What really bugs me about many "mysteries" is that there are often lots of likely explanations, but the reported ones are usually the most ridiculous! Take the following example ... a "UFO" hovering over the Kremlin! I would, of course, just like to pint out that "UFO" means "Unidentified Flying Object" ... not "alien spaceship" ... but that doesn't stop the headline writers! This particular one has been likened to "Darth Vader's Imperial Cruiser" FFS! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...r-Kremlin.html Putting "little green men" to one side, does anyone really think that if a space ship was hovering over the Kremlin for several hours, the sky wouldn't be filled with military helicopters, or that the entire area wouldn't have been sealed off? Oh hang on ... it was all a cover-up and the military didn't want to draw attention to it! I suppose the headline "Balloon floats over Moscow" might not have been so attention-grabbing! |
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I would love to think that they were visiting us, but as they stand, the current laws of physics prevent anything from travelling faster than light. Even getting close to light speed would be difficult. However, there is still the question of worm holes. The laws of physics do allow for the existence of worm holes linking two distant parts of the universe. I am not a theoritical physicist, but I have a problem with worm holes. Maybe my brain is not expanded enough to take in this concept. But then physical laws also allow for the concept of time travel to the past as well as the future, but do any of us really beleive that that is a possibility? So how could they get here from there. Unless they come from our own solar system, which they obviously don't. So no matter what evidence there is for Roswell or any other UFO sighting, as an engineer and scientist I have to reject them as false due to the underlying science being violated.
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I don't think I have seen anything that couldn't be explained by other means.
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